![]() ![]() At first, when writing on art, he intended to write a work titled The Analytical Philosophy of Art to match several of his previous books. Before achieving world renown for his philosophy of art, he was much admired as a philosopher in these other domains. Danto held his so-described “analytical philosophy of art” as “of a piece” with his analytical philosophies of history, action, and knowledge. He stands as one of the four giants of the Anglo-American tradition, with Stanley Cavell, Nelson Goodman, and Richard Wollheim, who together rearticulated the terms for how philosophers should think about the arts as part of a broad philosophical vision each had of the world. ![]() When I asked him what I should then do having been born on January 10th, he replied, “obviously not as much as me.” He did do something important. ![]() Arthur Danto once told me that having been born on the first day of the year (the year was 1924) he felt obliged to do something important. ![]()
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